# 民法 / Civil Code — 第千四十六条 (Article 1046)

- Law: 民法 (Civil Code), 明治二十九年法律第八十九号
- English title "Civil Code": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第千四十六条 (Article 1046)（遺留分侵害額の請求） — address `art-1046`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
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### 第千四十六条（遺留分侵害額の請求） — Claim for the Amount of Infringement of the Statutory Reserved Share
<sup>caption: machine translation, not official</sup>
<sup>art-1046 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046</sup>

  **第一項**  遺留分権利者及びその承継人は、受遺者（特定財産承継遺言により財産を承継し又は相続分の指定を受けた相続人を含む。以下この章において同じ。）又は受贈者に対し、遺留分侵害額に相当する金銭の支払を請求することができる。
  <sup>art-1046/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-1</sup>
  A person entitled to the statutory reserved share and that person's successor may demand from a legatee (including an heir who has succeeded to property under a will for succession of specific property or has received designation of a share of the estate; the same applies below in this Chapter) or a donee payment of a sum of money equivalent to the amount of infringement of the statutory reserved share.
  <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

  **第二項**  遺留分侵害額は、第千四十二条の規定による遺留分から第一号及び第二号に掲げる額を控除し、これに第三号に掲げる額を加算して算定する。
  <sup>art-1046/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2</sup>
  The amount of infringement of the statutory reserved share is calculated by deducting the amounts set forth in items (i) and (ii) from the statutory reserved share under the provisions of Article 1042 and adding the amount set forth in item (iii).
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    **一**  遺留分権利者が受けた遺贈又は第九百三条第一項に規定する贈与の価額
    <sup>art-1046/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-1</sup>
    the value of a legacy or of a gift prescribed in Article 903, paragraph (1) received by the person entitled to the statutory reserved share;
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **二**  第九百条から第九百二条まで、第九百三条及び第九百四条の規定により算定した相続分に応じて遺留分権利者が取得すべき遺産の価額
    <sup>art-1046/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-2</sup>
    the value of the estate that the person entitled to the statutory reserved share should acquire in accordance with the share of the estate calculated pursuant to the provisions of Articles 900 through 902, Article 903, and Article 904;
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

    **三**  被相続人が相続開始の時において有した債務のうち、第八百九十九条の規定により遺留分権利者が承継する債務（次条第三項において「遺留分権利者承継債務」という。）の額
    <sup>art-1046/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-3</sup>
    of the obligations that the decedent held at the time the succession opened, the amount of the obligations that the person entitled to the statutory reserved share succeeds to pursuant to the provisions of Article 899 (referred to as "obligation succeeded to by the person entitled to the statutory reserved share" in paragraph (3) of the following Article).
    <sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

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## Cites
- art-1046/par-2: 第千四十二条 → 民法 第千四十二条 (Article 1042), art-1042 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1042 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1042
- art-1046/par-2: 第一号 → 民法 第千四十六条第二項第一号 (Article 1046, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-1046/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-1
- art-1046/par-2: 第二号 → 民法 第千四十六条第二項第二号 (Article 1046, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-1046/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-2
- art-1046/par-2: 第三号 → 民法 第千四十六条第二項第三号 (Article 1046, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-1046/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2/item-3
- art-1046/par-2/item-1: 第九百三条第一項 → 民法 第九百三条第一項 (Article 903, paragraph (1)), art-903/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-903/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-903/par-1
- art-1046/par-2/item-2: 第九百条から第九百二条まで → 民法 第九百条 (Article 900), art-900 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-900 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-900
- art-1046/par-2/item-2: 第九百条から第九百二条まで → 民法 第九百一条 (Article 901), art-901 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-901 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-901
- art-1046/par-2/item-2: 第九百条から第九百二条まで → 民法 第九百二条 (Article 902), art-902 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-902 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-902
- art-1046/par-2/item-2: 第九百三条 → 民法 第九百三条 (Article 903), art-903 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-903 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-903
- art-1046/par-2/item-2: 第九百四条 → 民法 第九百四条 (Article 904), art-904 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-904 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-904
- art-1046/par-2/item-3: 第八百九十九条 → 民法 第八百九十九条 (Article 899), art-899 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-899 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-899
- art-1046/par-2/item-3: 次条第三項 → 民法 第千四十七条第三項 (Article 1047, paragraph (3)), art-1047/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1047/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1047/par-3

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 民法 第千四十六条第二項（遺留分侵害額の請求） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1046/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1046/par-2
- 民法 第千四十七条第三項（受遺者又は受贈者の負担額） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/civil-code/art-1047/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/129AC0000000089/art-1047/par-3

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 民法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/129AC0000000089/20260624_508AC0000000045), retrieved 2026-10-11
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Civil Code — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4848/tb), retrieved 2026-10-11
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch civil-code-20261011T170941-010, translated 2026-10-12
- This site's parser, version 190 — 民法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-11
